Thanks for warm welcome everyone! Especially you Geneva11 - thanks for those kind words and your suggestions. Your right, flowers aren't really my thing, but I love to decorate in general. Not sure if in the same manner as you, but I saw your Washi tapes thread and I'm sure that I will be able to make some, they seem pretty easy indeed, but to get them right, you actually need to spend some time on those. We will see how it goes. I'm happy to be here!

Hi! I'm Shibura and I'm pretty new to Origami, but I'm very happy to be a member of this forum. I first found out about origami fairly early, when I was a kid, but never really felt like this was something, that could interest me. I believe many people have been through this. It's extremely hard to determine whether you will like something or not when you are young, and that was the case for me as well. But, now that I am older and started looking for some interesting hobbies to pick up, I thought - why not Origami? It took me a while to get into it, well I only have around 3 months experience, but after months of experimenting and constant failures I actually grew a liking to origami and I thought it's time to broaden my horizons a little bit and join a community, that shares a similar kind of pasion for origami like I do. And now I'm sure, that I have definitely found a good place.

Apart from origami, I also reguarly frequent gym, try to eat relatively healthy, but I can't say that I'm sometimes eating way too much, especially when watching my favorite TV show or Anime, but well, you probably all know that pretty well - eating and watching, it just simply comes along :D But anyway, I'm trying to keep myself in shape, I watch a lot and I don't read that much, but I love to open a book from time to time as well, just I guess I simply need a little bit more time for that, as I hate starting a book and not having the time to read it on daily basis, kind of throws me out of a rhytm, and unfortunately I don't have too much time to spend on reading lately.

Okay, not sure what else I could write here - I hope we will all get to know each other better as the time goes and we dicuss different stuff related to origami all other things here on the forums!

Welcome! I love anime and Japanese culture as well, although I'm much less experienced in origami than you. Hopefully I will be able to learn a lot from you as well as others on this forums. I have registered just a couple of days earlier than you, so I believe I should actully make my own introduction thread as well. Cheers!